Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2016-1922

QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) built with the TPR optimization for 32-bit Windows guests support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference flaw. It occurs while doing I/O port write operations via hmp interface. In that, 'current_cpu' remains null, which leads to the null pointer dereference. A user or process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU instance, resulting in DoS issue.

  • Published: Dec 29, 2016
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2016-1922
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.5
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 2.1
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
qemu / qemu - 2.5.1.1.x
debian / debian_linux 8.0 8.0.x
debian / debian_linux 7.0 7.0.x